Watering-trough for fowls.



' J. L. SHUTE.

WATBRING TROUGH FOB FOWLS.

APPLIGYATION FILED JUNE 29, 1914.

1,127,296. Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 29, 1914. Serial No. 848,053.

T0 all yeli/om t may concern 13e it known that I, JAMES L. SrrU'rE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of iifashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in l/Vatering-Troughs for .F owls; and l do hereby declare the f ollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

rilhis invention relates to animal husbandry, and more especially to watering fountains and troughs; and the object of lthe same is to produce a trough of this kind which has means for excluding the smaller fowls therefrom.

To this end the invention consists essentially in a peculiar' form of partition and its divisional wings, the whole being removably inserted in the trough so that it may be withdrawn for cleaning the parts; and the invention further consists in details as will be elaborated in the following specification and claims.

in the drawings Figure l is a side elevation of this device complete, partly in section, Fig. i? is a perspective detail of one end of the partition, and Fig. 3 a sectional detail on about the line 3`3 of Fig. l. Fi 4 a plan view of a portion of the blank from which the partition is made, showing h ow the wings are cut. Fig. 5 is a perspective detail of part of a similar partition made of sheet instal.

This watering device is of that class which employs an inverted bottle as its fount F. The bottle is inserted in the upper end of an upright reservoir l which, with the parts that follow, is made of metal and by preference of galvanized metal so that 1t will not rust. The reservoir l is shown as cylindrical in contour, open at its top and closed at its bottom, and within this reservoir may be inserted a rest composed of crossed strips 2. A wire 3 passes through the cork C and is long enough to pass through the neck of the bottle F when the cork is in place. Vhen a filled bottle is inverted and put into the reservoir l, the wire strikes the bottom of the latter and pushes the cork out of the bottle neck so that it rises in the water within the bottle, oats thereon and falls therewith, and when the fount is removed for replenishing its charge the cork is actuated to hold said charge therein by pulling on the wire.

Secured in a water tight manner to and projecting radially from one side of the reservoir is a trough e which preferably has a ila-t bottom standing flush with the bottom of the reservoir, and parallel upright sides about two inches high, its inner end communicating with the interior of the reservoir through an inlet hole 5 and its outer end 6 being closed as shown, or in some instances provided with an outlet 7 where some other form of feed than the fount is provided and where the water is to run continuously through this trough. The trough is preferably of galvanized iron, with the upper edges of its side and end walls beaded as at 8, in width it is about two inches, and in length it is proportioned to the size of the fountain or volume of the feed and the number of fowls such as chicks or ducks which are to be watered.

find by experience that when a watering trough is in use by brooder ducks or day old chicks they frequently suifer and are often killed by getting into the water, splashing it onto themselves and each other to too great an eXtent, or crowding themselves into the trough or against each other. This I overcome by the use of a partition made of galvanized wire screening of about a quarA ter inch mesh, the partition having lateral wings at proper intervals, all as best seen in Figs. l to 4. I may here say that for older fowls the partition 10 shownin Fig. 5 may be substituted, this partition being of sheet iron or tin and the wings ll of the same material and the false bottom omitted. Either partition is readily removable from the trough so that all parts can be cleansed and perhaps boiled.

he wire screen partition preferably employed is cut from a sheet l2 of screen fabric, one end of which is shown in Fig. 4 wherein the full lines indicate cuts and the dotted lines indicate subsequent bending. This sheet will be of the same length as the trough, and of a width to enable it to be folded into the shape shown in Fig. 2. The blank is cut on the lines 13 and 14 to produce wings l5 and 1G whose fold lines 17 and 1S are in alinement whereas the bodies of the wings are staggered. The result of this cutting of the blank is that when the wings are Patented Feb. 2, i915.

opened outward as v shown at 16 in Fig. 2, the holes or openings 19 and 20 are out of register with each other. rlhe entire sheet is bent on a central longitudinal line 21 into two sides or leaves 22, and the leaves are bentoutward ,at right angles on lines Q3 into a two-part false bottom 24, the combined Awidth of the parts being the same as the internal width of the trough. Finally the parts of the bottom are bent down on lines 25 into upright [langes 26 which contact with the inner faces of the side walls of the trough and whose lower edges Q7 rest on the bottom of the trough when this structure is in place. The heightof said flanges is such that the false bottom 24 underlies the lower edges of the outbent wings 15 and 16 and stands alittle below the level of the water in the trough, whereas the wings rise to a point considerably above the level of the water and above the sides of the trough, and these wings are obviously for the purpose of lpreventing the fowls from crowding each other. The leaves 22 rise above the wings, and their connecting bend 21 may be covered and reinforced by beading Q8 of any suitable character, ythe same preferably also extending down the ends of the partition at 29 and terminating at the false bottom.

rThe structure shown in Fig. 5 should have the same dimensions so that it is interchangeable with the reticulate partition for the purposes above described, but the solid partition has no false bottom and needs none as it is used with older' chicks or ducks and with adult fowls who may be permitted to put their bills into the water as far `as they like. It is quite possible that the wings of this partition could be set a little farther apart, or perhaps their every other wing omitted. But these details as well as other details not elaborated herein, may be left to the manufacturer. l .emphasize the removability and interchangeability of parts, first because Ait permits cleansing, and second because it adapts the device to various fowls or various sizes of fowls.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for `What is claimed is: y

1. In a watering device, the combination with a rectangular trough, and means for feeding water to one end thereof; of a removable upright partition extending algng the center of the trough, and a series of upright transverse wings projecting outward from the partition into contact with the side walls of the trough and extending from lines coincident with the lower edge of the partition to points above the upper edges of said side walls, for the purpose set forth.

2. V partition for watering troughs formed of sheet material folded on a eentral line into contacting upright leaves and bent outward from the lower edges of said leaves into a bottom, said leaves having wings cut from them at points out of register with each other, and the wings bent outward over the bottom and at angles to the leaves, for the purpose described.

8. A partition for' watering troughs formed of a sheet of reticulate material folded on a central line into contacting upright leaves, bent outward from the lower edges of said `leaves into a two-part false bottom, and the parts of said false bottom bent downward at their outer edges into upright flanges.

4f. A partition for watering troughs formed of a sheet of reticulate'material folded on a central line into contacting uprightleaves, bent outward lfrom the lower edges of said leaves into a two-part false bottom, and the parts of said bottom bent downward at their outer edges 'into upright flanges; said leaves having wings cut from them at pointsl out of register with each other, and the wings bent outward at right angles to the leaves, for 'the purpose described.

ln testimony whereof l affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES L. SHUTE.

1Witnesses FRED R. BUTTERwoR'rH,

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